召会作神的殿─神永远经纶的目标─的内在意义
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变死亡为生命,以建造基督奥秘的身体作神的殿
Message Sixteen The Changing of Death into Life for the Building Up of the Mystical Body of Christ as the Temple of God
 

  
读经:约二1~22
Scripture Reading: John 2:1-22
壹 
主在我们里面渴望要从魂的旷野里帐幕的召会生活,往前到殿的召会生活,有基督,就是包罗万有的灵,在我们灵里作美地的实际─来六1上,书三14~17,申八7~8,弗二21~22,西一12,二6~7,罗一9,八16:
The Lord within us is aspiring to go on from the tabernacle church life in the wilderness of the soul to the temple church life with Christ, the all-inclusive Spirit, as the reality of the good land in our spirit—Heb. 6:1a; Josh. 3:14-17; Deut. 8:7-8; Eph. 2:21-22; Col. 1:12; 2:6-7; Rom. 1:9; 8:16:
一 
帐幕预表神在地上,或在地方上的召会,而圣殿表征召会作基督身体的实际;众地方召会乃是宝贵的手续,将我们带进那作神经纶荣耀目标之身体的实际里─弗一22~23,参启二一10~11。
The tabernacle typifies God's church on earth, His church in the localities, whereas the temple signifies the church as the reality of the Body of Christ; the local churches are the precious procedure to bring us to the reality of the Body as the glorious goal of God's economy—Eph. 1:22-23; cf. Rev. 21:10-11.
二 
基督身体之实际的见证乃是神末了的恢复─有基督作我们的一切,基督身体的一的实际,以及祂身体上众肢体都尽功用─弗一17,三16~四6,16。
The testimony of the reality of the Body of Christ is God's final recovery—with Christ being everything to us, with the reality of the oneness of the Body of Christ, and with all the members of His Body functioning—Eph. 1:17; 3:16—4:6, 16.
贰 
神建造召会作神的殿的意念和道路,高过我们的意念和道路;我们需要弃绝我们的道路和意念,并归向耶和华我们的神,来吃祂的话并喝祂话中的水,使我们被充满、加强、更新、圣别、变化、并模成祂的形像,为着建造基督的身体─赛五五1~11,五七20与注1,约二19,三34,六63,十七17,弗五26,林后三16~18,罗八28~29。
God's thoughts and ways to build up the church as the temple of God are higher than ours; we need to forsake our thoughts and our ways and return to Jehovah our God to eat His word and drink the water in His word so that we may be filled, strengthened, renewed, sanctified, transformed, and conformed to His image for the building up of the Body of Christ—Isa. 55:1-11; 57:20 and footnote 1; John 2:19; 3:34; 6:63; 17:17; Eph. 5:26; 2 Cor. 3:16-18; Rom. 8:28-29.
参 
约翰福音启示,基督是我们的生命,为着神的建造,以及变死亡为生命(生命的原则),二者乃是为着建造基督奥秘的身体作神的殿(生命的目的)─约二1~22:
The Gospel of John reveals that Christ is our life for God's building and that the changing of death into life (life's principle) is for the building up of the mystical Body of Christ as the temple of God (life's purpose)—2:1-22:
一 
约翰福音是一卷表号的书;表号是具有属灵意义的象征,用以表征生命的事─11节,二十30~31:
The Gospel of John is a book of signs, which are symbols with spiritual significance, used to signify the matter of life—v. 11; 20:30-31:
1 
变水为酒以及主被拆毁的身体被建立起来,都是表号─二1~11,太十二38~42,参约二18~19,何六1~3。
Both the changing of the water into wine and the raising up of the Lord's destroyed body are signs—2:1-11; Matt. 12:38-42; cf. John 2:18-19; Hosea 6:1-3.
2 
变死亡为生命,乃是我们经历祂作复活以建造召会作神的殿的原则,凭借和道路。
The changing of death into life is the principle, the means, and the way that we experience Him as resurrection for the building up of the church as His temple.
3 
基督是真约拿,被埋在地心里三日三夜,然后复活,使我们能与祂成为一,像鸽子一样出去传和平的福音─拿一1,太十二38~41,弗二17。
Christ as the real Jonah was buried in the heart of the earth for three days and resurrected so that we could be one with Him to go out like a dove and preach the gospel of peace—Jonah 1:1; Matt. 12:38-41; Eph. 2:17.
4 
基督是真所罗门,成了赐生命的灵,在我们灵里作为复活的实际,以建造召会作神的殿,这乃是借着祂的肢体申言,说智慧的话,为着建造召会作祂的身体─太十二42,王上十23~24,太十六18,弗四16,林前八1~3,十二7~8,十四4下,12,31。
Christ as the real Solomon became the life-giving Spirit as the reality of resurrection in our spirit to build up the church as the temple of God by prophesying through His members to speak the word of wisdom for the building up of the church as His Body—Matt. 12:42; 1 Kings 10:23-24; Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:16; 1 Cor. 8:1-3; 12:7-8; 14:4b, 12, 31.
肆 
主在第三日去赴加利利之迦拿娶亲的筵席,这事实指明祂在复活里临到我们─约二1~11,三3,5~6,四10,14,十一25,41~44,参王下二19~22:
The fact that the Lord came to a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee on the third day indicates that He comes to us in resurrection—John 2:1-11; 3:3, 5-6; 4:10, 14; 11:25, 41-44; cf. 2 Kings 2:19-22:
一 
迦拿是芦苇之地,象征主进入充满软弱、脆弱之人的世界─约二1,赛四二3,太十二20,十一7。
Cana, as a land of reeds, signifies the Lord's coming into a world full of weak and fragile people—John 2:1; Isa. 42:3; Matt. 12:20; 11:7.
二 
婚姻表征人生命的延续,婚筵表征人生的快乐和享受;每一天都是一个婚礼,人生是一个婚筵,这样说的意思是,我们一生都盼望、期待美好的事情发生在我们身上。
Marriage signifies the continuation of human life, and a wedding feast signifies the enjoyment of human life; to say that every day is a wedding and that human life is a wedding feast means that we hope, or expect, good things to happen to us.
三 
在迦拿的婚筵席间,“酒用尽了”─约二3:
During the course of the wedding feast in Cana, "the wine ran out"—John 2:3:
1 
酒,葡萄生命的汁浆,是表征属人的生命;酒用尽了,表征人的生命连同其享受(就如我们的健康、金钱、财产、天然的关系等)迟早都会用尽。
The wine, the life juice of the grape, signifies human life, and the wine running out signifies that our human life with its enjoyment (such as our health, our money, our possessions, our natural relationships, etc.) will always run out.
2 
主耶稣作我们复活的生命,绝不会用尽─英诗五二三首,第四节(无中文)。
The Lord Jesus as our resurrection life never runs out—Hymns, #523, stanza 4.
四 
主耶稣要人把六口石缸倒满水,他们就倒满了,直到缸口─约二6~7:
The Lord Jesus told the people to fill the six stone waterpots with water, and they filled them up to the brim—John 2:6-7:
1 
六口石缸象征受造的人,因为人是神在第六日造的;(创一26~27,31;)水在这里象征死亡。(创一2,6,出十四21,太三16。)
The six waterpots signify the created man, who was created by God on the sixth day (Gen. 1:26-27, 31); the water here signifies death (vv. 2, 6; Exo. 14:21; Matt. 3:16).
2 
变水为酒,就是变死亡为生命,乃是变化;基督徒的生活不是改变性格的生活,不是改良行为的生活,乃是变死亡为生命的生活─约二8~11。
The changing of water into wine, the changing of death into life, is transformation; the Christian life is not a character-changing life or a behavior-improving life but a matter of changing our death into life—John 2:8-11.
3 
正如管筵席的发觉,新酒比先前的酒更好;(9~10;)照样,我们也将发现,我们借重生所得的生命远胜于我们天然的生命。
Even as the master of the feast discovered that the new wine was better than the former wine (vv. 9-10), we too will find that the life we received through regeneration is much better than our natural life.
伍 
生命的原则乃是为着生命的目的,这是借着我们经历钉十架并复活的基督作为神的种子,在我们里面生长而得完成;这事可见于美地与六座庇护城的地理位置─二19,约壹三9,民三四12,三五6,15~16,25:
The principle of life for the purpose of life is carried out through our experience of the crucified and resurrected Christ as the seed of God growing within us; this can be seen in the geographical position of the good land and the six cities of refuge—v. 19; 1 John 3:9; Num. 34:12; 35:6, 15-16, 25:
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美地上好的部分被二海(地中海与死海)一河(约但河)所环绕;这指明对复活并升天之基督(上升、高举之地)的享受,必须是在祂死的范围、境界里─民三四12,约十二24~26,腓三7~11,西三1~4。
The best part of the good land is surrounded by two seas—the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea—and a river—the Jordan; this indicates that the enjoyment of the resurrected and ascended Christ (the elevated, uplifted land) must be in the sphere, the territory, of His death—34:12; John 12:24-26; Phil. 3:7-11; Col. 3:1-4.
二 
庇护城预表包罗万有的基督作救赎之神的具体化身,犯错的罪人可以逃入基督里得庇护─民三五6:
The cities of refuge typify the all-inclusive Christ as the embodiment of the redeeming God, into whom mistake-making sinners can flee for refuge—Num. 35:6:
1 
庇护城是为那些不是故意杀人者所设立的;(15~25;)倘若一个罪人悔改,神会看他是误犯罪的人;这样一个人可以逃到作他庇护的基督里面,并得着祂的赦免─路二四47,林前二8,约壹一7,9。
The cities of refuge were set up for any person who killed another person unintentionally (vv. 15-25); if any sinner repents, God will regard him as a mistaken sinner who can flee into Christ as his refuge and receive His forgiveness—Luke 24:47; 1 Cor. 2:8; 1 John 1:7, 9.
2 
庇护城有六座,约但河两岸各三座;六这数字表征犯错的人,因为人是在第六日创造的─创一26~31。
There were six cities of refuge, three on each side of the Jordan; the number six signifies mistake-making man who was created on the sixth day—Gen. 1:26-31.
3 
三这数字表征三一神作犯错之人的庇护;二这数字(两组各三座城)表征立在宇宙中的见证,向宇宙见证,三一神住在地上人类中间,作他们的庇护城─民三五13~14。
The number three signifies the Triune God as the refuge for the man who makes mistakes; the number two (the two sets of three cities each) signifies a testimony standing in the universe that the Triune God is living on earth among human beings to be their city of refuge—Num. 35:13-14.
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庇护城不仅为着以色列人,也为着在他们中间的外人并寄居的,这表征三一神作犯错之人的庇护,乃是为着全人类的;不仅如此,六座庇护城分布在不同的地方,指明基督作三一神的具体化身,乃是亲近、便利的;祂已经在人中间扩展,达到我们所在之处,作一切犯错之人的庇护城─15节,诗二12,十六1~3,十七7~8,十八1~2,三六7~8,五七1,九一1~2,一四三8~10,赛三二1~2。
That the cities of refuge were to be not only for the children of Israel but also for the strangers and sojourners among them signifies that the Triune God as the refuge for mistake-making man is for all mankind; furthermore, the distribution of the six cities of refuge in different places indicates that Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God, is near and available; He has spread among men, to the very place where we are, to be a city of refuge for all those who make mistakes—v. 15; Psa. 2:12; 16:1-3; 17:7-8; 18:1-2; 36:7-8; 57:1; 91:1-2; 143:8-10; Isa. 32:1-2.
陆 
生命的目的在主的话里宣告出来:“你们拆毁这殿,我三日内要将它建立起来”─约二19:
The purpose of life is declared in the Lord's words: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up"—John 2:19:
一 
借着主在十字架上的死,就是祂物质的身体被拆毁,祂背负我们的过犯和罪孽,以救赎并称义我们,并且祂的死乃为医治我们的疾病─赛五三4~6,罗三23~26,彼前二24。
Through His death, the destruction of His physical body on the cross, the Lord bore our transgressions and iniquities to redeem and justify us, and His death was for the healing of our diseases—Isa. 53:4-6; Rom. 3:23-26; 1 Pet. 2:24.
二 
主物质的身体被拆毁,也使那掌死权的魔鬼被毁坏;当祂死在十字架上时,旧造、旧人、肉体、撒但、罪和世界─都被钉在十字架上;因此,在神的眼中,在基督钉十字架后,整个宇宙就已经被清理了─来二14,罗六6,加二20,五24,约一29,三14,六70~71,十二31,太十六23,林前十五3。
The destruction of the Lord's physical body was also the destruction of the devil, who had the power of death; when He died on the cross, the old creation, the old man, the flesh, Satan, sin, sins, and the world were crucified on the cross; thus, in the eyes of God, after Christ's crucifixion the entire universe has been cleared up—Heb. 2:14; Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20; 5:24; John 1:29; 3:14; 6:70-71; 12:31; Matt. 16:23; 1 Cor. 15:3.
三 
主物质的身体被拆毁,而在三天内复活,也是祂作为一粒麦子死了,并且复活,将神的神圣生命这神的神圣之火释放并分赐到祂许多信徒里面,使祂的许多信徒成为神的复制品─约十二24,路十二49~51。
The destruction of the Lord's physical body and His being raised up in three days were also His dying as a grain of wheat and resurrecting to release and dispense the divine life of God as the divine fire of God into His many believers to make His many believers the reproduction of God—John 12:24; Luke 12:49-51.
四 
借着基督的死与复活,祂物质的身体就得着扩增,成为祂团体、奥秘的身体,就是召会作神的殿,神的家─林前三16~17,提前三15,彼前二5,弗二21~22。
Through Christ's death and resurrection, His physical body has been increased to be His corporate and mystical Body, which is the church as the temple of God, the house of God—1 Cor. 3:16-17; 1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 2:5; Eph. 2:21-22.
五 
许多住处就是基督身体的许多肢体;这身体就是神的殿─约十四2,23,罗十二5,林前三16~17。
The many abodes are the many members of the Body of Christ, which is God's temple—John 14:2, 23; Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 3:16-17.
六 
我们既是借着基督那释放生命的死所产生的许多子粒,也是基督那分赐生命的复活所产生的许多住处,就必须是爱祂到极点的人,过钉十字架的生活,好借着那在瓦器里之宝贝的大能,将复活的生命显明出来─约十四21,23,罗八28~29,林后四7~18,十二7~9。
As the many grains produced by Christ's life-releasing death and the many abodes produced by Christ's life-dispensing resurrection, we must be those who love Him to the uttermost by our living a crucified life for the manifestation of the resurrection life by the power of the treasure in the earthen vessels—John 14:21, 23; Rom. 8:28-29; 2 Cor. 4:7-18; 12:7-9.
柒 
主在十字架上所说的七句话,启示祂流血的死是为着我们法理的救赎,并且祂那释放生命的死是为着我们生机的救恩─约十九34,十二24:
The seven words spoken by the Lord on the cross reveal that His death by the shedding of His blood was for our judicial redemption and that His death for the releasing of His life was for our organic salvation—John 19:34; 12:24:
一 
“父啊,赦免他们,因为他们所作的,他们不晓得”─路二三34。
"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"—Luke 23:34.
二 
“我实在告诉你,今日你要同我在乐园里了”─路二三43节。
"Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise"—v. 43.
三 
“妇人,看哪,你的儿子。…看哪,你的母亲”─约十九26~27。
"Woman, behold, your son…Behold, your mother"—John 19:26-27.
四 
“我的神,我的神,你为什么弃绝我?”─太二七46。
"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"—Matt. 27:46.
五 
“我渴了”─约十九28。
"I thirst"—John 19:28.
六 
“成了!”─约十九30节。
"It is finished!"—v. 30.
七 
“父啊,我将我的灵交在你手里”─路二三46。
"Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit"—Luke 23:46.
捌 
主在十字架上的死,已完成祂救赎的工作,但祂仍在我们里面并借着我们作工,以完成祂生机的救恩;祂将我们一切的死亡变为生命,好将我们建造成为神的殿,使我们成为一个新人,作祂永远经纶的杰作和目标─约五17,林前十五58,十六10,罗五10,弗二10,15。
The Lord's death on the cross finished His work of redemption, but He is still working within us and through us to accomplish His organic salvation; He changes all our death into life to build us up to be the temple of God, making us the one new man as the masterpiece and goal of His eternal economy—John 5:17; 1 Cor. 15:58; 16:10; Rom. 5:10; Eph. 2:10, 15.
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